Choice 1.
The actual text of the resolution is as follows. Please note
that this does not include preludes, prologues, any preambles to
the resolution, post-ambles to the resolution, abstracts,
fore-words, after-words, rationales, supporting documents,
opinion polls, arguments for and against, and any of the other
important material you will find on the mailing list
archives. Please read the debian-vote mailing list archives for
details.

Release Etch even with kernel firmware issues

We affirm that our Priorities are our users and the free
software community (Social Contract #4);

We acknowledge that there is a lot of progress in the
kernel firmware issue; however, it is not yet finally
sorted out;

We assure the community that there will be no regressions
in the progress made for freedom in the kernel distributed
by Debian relative to the Sarge release in Etch

We give priority to the timely release of Etch over
sorting every bit out; for this reason, we will treat
removal of sourceless firmware as a best-effort process,
and deliver firmware in udebs as long as it is necessary
for installation (like all udebs), and firmware included
in the kernel itself as part of Debian Etch, as long as we
are legally allowed to do so, and the firmware is
distributed upstream under a license that complies with
the DFSG.

Choice 2.
The actual text of the resolution is as follows. Please note
that this does not include preludes, prologues, any preambles to
the resolution, post-ambles to the resolution, abstracts,
fore-words, after-words, rationales, supporting documents,
opinion polls, arguments for and against, and any of the other
important material you will find on the mailing list
archives. Please read the mailing list archives for details.

Special exception to DFSG #2 for firmware as long as required

THE DEBIAN PROJECT

reaffirms its dedication to providing a 100% free system to
our users according to our Social Contract and the DFSG;
and

encourages authors of all works to make those works
available not only under licenses that permit modification,
but also in forms that make such modifications practical;
and

supports the decision of the Release Team to require works
such as images, video, and fonts to be licensed in
compliance with the DFSG without requiring source code for
these works under DFSG #2; and

determines that as a special exception to DFSG #2, the
source code for device firmwares contained in the kernel
packages will not be required as long as there are no
other technical means to install and run the Debian
system on these devices.

Quorum

For this GR, as always
statistics
shall be gathered about ballots received and acknowledgements
sent periodically during the voting period. Additionally, the
list of
voters
would be made publicly available. Also, the
tally sheet
may also be viewed after to voting is done (Note that
while the vote is in progress it is a dummy tally sheet).

Looking at row 2, column 1, Special exception to DFSG 2 for firmware as long as required [3:1]
received 110 votes over Release Etch even with kernel firmware issues

Looking at row 1, column 2, Release Etch even with kernel firmware issues
received 196 votes over Special exception to DFSG 2 for firmware as long as required [3:1].

Pair-wise defeats

Option 1 defeats Option 3 by ( 271 - 42) = 229 votes.

The Schwartz Set contains

Option 1 "Release Etch even with kernel firmware issues"

The winner

Option 1 "Release Etch even with kernel firmware issues"

Debian uses the Condorcet method for voting.
Simplistically, plain Condorcets method
can be stated like so : Consider all possible two-way races between candidates.
The Condorcet winner, if there is one, is the one
candidate who can beat each other candidate in a two-way
race with that candidate.
The problem is that in complex elections, there may well
be a circular relationship in which A beats B, B beats C,
and C beats A. Most of the variations on Condorcet use
various means of resolving the tie. See
Cloneproof Schwartz Sequential Dropping
for details. Debian's variation is spelled out in the
constitution,
specifically, A.6.